Midgard Station, Antarctica In front of a large window over a frozen valley of Earth’s coldest continent, Noriko Null is relaxing inside a bathtub of expensive hinoki wood. It was perhaps a little indulgent to include a traditional Japanese bath[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Midgard Station, Antarctica Outside of these walls, a human would die of exposure in minutes. But here it’s warm enough that Noriko Null takes off her green leather jacket, remaining in her black T-shirt with a white Ø symbol as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The bed is uncomfortable, and Noriko Null soon finds out she can’t move. Her eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the brightness, and when they do the first thing she sees is her mother’s face. <You look good,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leiko Tanaka observes the fight between Torn and the Winter King from the bridge of the monarch’s mothership, concentrating on the data analyzed by the computers. Even with the incredibly advanced technology of the Lar, the powers of a Demon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth’s orbit What used to be empty space just a few decades ago is now littered with hundreds of satellites, commercial and not. Today there’s something quite unusual among them: a solid block of ice, holding a woman. Until she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four Seasons Hotel, Cairo Yong-Su Kim helps Noriko Null put on her green leather jacket, while she tries to avoid making eye contact. She’s following the news: they’re talking about the sudden appearance of an alien structure above Djoser’s Pyramid,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Neptune, 3 billion miles from Earth The blue planet is a beautiful and majestic sight rarely witnessed by mortals, almost four times larger than Earth yet seventeen times more massive. Leiko Tanaka never imagined that she would see it with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saqqara, Egypt Yong-Su Kim looks at the pyramid, raising his hand to shield his eyes from the sun. It’s hard to believe that just yesterday he was having a date in South Korea and that now he’s in front of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Myridia, 50 light-years from Earth In the complete and utter chaos of the last half hour, it’s impossible to follow the events from the crowd. People were fleeing the City Hall before its destruction, and now there are thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hell, 100 years ago Two Demon children approach the gate. The girl looks like she’s twelve years old and the boy ten, but they’re both four times older than that. She’s created an energy lockpick and is trying to open[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
